Midterm Exam

A  Family as a unified experience

B  Family as encumbrance

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as fulfillment

E  Family as haven

F  Family as a stable and harmonious past

A  Family as haven

B  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

C  Family as encumbrance

D  Family as monolithic

E  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as monolithic

B  Family as haven

C  Family as encumbrance

D  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

E  Family as fulfillment

F  Family as a unified experience

A  Family as encumbrance

B  Family as monolithic

C  Family as haven

D  Family as fulfillment

E  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

A  Family as fulfillment

B  Family as haven

C  Family as encumbrance

D  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

E  Family as monolithic

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Functionalism

C  Liberal Feminism

D  Conflict Theory

A  Functionalism

B  Social Breakdown Theory

C  Symbolic Interactionism

D  Conflict Theory

A  Functionalism

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Conflict Theory

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  family is the locus of competition and violence.

B  relationships among family members are expected to be stable and harmonious.

C  people do not take media images of the family seriously.

D  relationships among family members are no longer idealized.

A  increased throughout the 20th century.

B  still accounts for more than half of all jobs.

C  declined by one-fifth since 2000.

D  was associated with low wages and poor working conditions.

A  the disinterested elderly, who have experienced deterioration in thought processes

B  the defended elderly, who are achievement oriented and continue to work hard

C  the integrated elderly, who function well, are intellectually able, and have competent egos

D  the passive-dependent elderly, who are inactive and dependent

A  the emergence of the household as a private sphere.

B  the early twentieth century.

C  the colonial period of the United States.

D  the Industrial Revolution.

A  the development of educational materials, such as child-rearing literature in the 19th century.

B  the “cult of true womanhood”.

C  the work that people do to earn a living financially.

D  the work of caring for family members in the home

A  Gender

B  Class

C  Religion

D  Race

A  Serial monogamy

B  Polygyny

C  Group marriage

D  Monogamy

A  gender norms have changed and we are more likely to be in egalitarian relationships.

B  they lie about how much housework they do.

C  they compare themselves to the experiences of their father’s, in which case it seems like they do equal housework as their wives.

D  blue collar jobs have been outsourced and they have no other work to do.

A  parents working longer hours

B  an increase in marital problems.

C  an increase in job layoffs.

D  All of the above

A  Extended family

B  Fictive kin

C  Nuclear family

D  Friend family

A  family as house of corrections

B  family as school

C  family as church

D  all of the above were functional roles of the family

A  a focus on relationships in extended families

B  a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families

C  a focus on the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families

D  None of the Above

A  Polygyny

B  Monogamy

C  Exogamy

D  Endogamy

A  professional class.

B  elite.

C  working class.

D  middle class.

A  engage in micro-level analysis of family interaction.

B  promote the nuclear family ideal

C  understand the larger social context in which families are embedded.

D  All of the above

A  family composition became smaller

B  romantic love became an expectation of marriage

C  work moved to factories

D  All of the above

A  the diversity in family types

B  the social agency of family members

C  the uneven change in family patterns

D  All of the above

A  are likely to have no pre-school age children.

B  usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.

C  comprise less than 10% of U.S. families.

D  outnumber families in which only the husband is employed two to one.

A  a three-generation family.

B  an egalitarian family.

C  a patriarchal form of family life.

D  the family form created by industrialization.

A  have more children than rich women.

B  thought finding a job was a strategy that assured economic self-sufficiency.

C  give up on marriage because they believe marriage will make their lives more difficult..

D  preferred welfare to work.